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Christian economyChristian oeconomie
Christian economy: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a family according to the scriptures. First written in Latin by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common use and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity.Christian oeconomie: or, A short survey of the right manner of erecting and ordering a familie according to the scriptures. First written in Latine by the author M. W. Perkins, and now set forth in the vulgar tongue, for more common vse and benefit, by Tho. Pickering Bachelar of Diuinitie.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. The faulty person, who is the cause of this desertion, is to be forced by course of Civill, and Ecclesiastical censure, to perform his, or her duty. Upon which proceeding, if he remain obstinate and perverse in will; the other must in patience, & earnest prayer unto God, wait the time, until his mind may be changed, and he made to relent by the order of the Magistrate. But if the one of them, by just occasion of fear, be compelled to depart from the other; and cannot return again without apparent danger of life; in this ⟨p. 105⟩case they are not bound to return; but the delinquent party is to remain solitary, till they be instructed and made willing to do their duties: and in the mean while, the party innocent must be resolved that God hath called him or her to single life.
Answ. The faultie person, who is the cause of this desertion, is to be forced by course of Ciuill, and Ecclesiasticall censure, to performe his, or her dutie. Vpon which proceeding, if he remaine obstinate and peruerse in will; the other must in patience, & earnest prayer vnto God, waite the time, vntill his mind may be changed, and he made to relent by the order of the Magistrate. But if the one of them, by iust occasion of feare, be compelled to depart from the other; and cannot returne againe without apparent danger of life; in this ⟨p. 105⟩case they are not bound to returne; but the delinquent partie is to remaine solitarie, till they be instructed and made willing to doe their duties: and in the meane while, the partie innocent must be resolued that God hath called him or her to single life.
Again, be it that the one is resolutely unwilling to dwell with the other, and thereupon flies away without any fault of the other; if the thing after a long space be sufficiently known before-hand, and all possible means have been used, to reclaim the guilty person; yea being called, he doth not personally appear before the Judge, to yield a reason of the fact; after public and solemn declaration made, the Minister upon such desertion, may pronounce the marriage to be dissolved. For he that upon malice flieth away from his mate, is to be holden in the same terms with an unbeliever, who departs upon detestation of religion, and the service of God,